Kherson Governorate

Kherson Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire that existed from 1803 to 1925. The governorate existed in what is now the Ukraine, and it included the cities of Kherson, Odessa, Tiraspol, and Yelizagetgrad. In 1914, the governorate had a population of 3,745,000 people, with the population booming due to immigration; the largest ethnic groups in order were Ukrainians, Romanians, Russians, Jews, Germans, Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks, and Roma. The governorate was partitioned in 1920, but it was reunited in 1920 before becoming a part of the Ukrainian SSR in 1925.